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YOUR WASHINGTON AND YOU VOLUME X NUMBER 6
WEEKLY NEWS LETTER From Office of Karl Mundt For Release - February 18 or after
REDUCED RATES FOR CROP INSURANCE. Utilizing figures supplied him by South Dakota ACA
Committeemen, on January 22 Congressman Mundt wrote C. F. Geissler, Manager of the
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation in Washington sending him some charts and a brief
in support of Mr. Mundt's request that crop insurance rates in South Dakota be
reviewed and re-studied with the object of reducing them to conform with the low loss
ration suffered in our State.
Last week, Mr. Geissler replied to Mr. Mundt stating that the reviews of the rate
structures had been completed and that as a connsequence "we were able to make substantial reductions in the premium rates for most counties. Because of favorable crop
conditions during the past several years, we have made very sizeable reductions in
most county premium rates in your State. Under these same conditions, it is also to
be expected that county reserves will be built up."
Thus, South Dakota farmers in counties eligible for Flax, Wheat, or Corn crop
insurance will be able to purchase this insurance in 1948 at definitely lower rates
in most areas covered by the Federal Crop Insurance Program.
-o-
PROGRESS IN HOUSING. Latest government reports indicate that while the situation still
leaves much to be desired, the housing program in America is making mighty strides
even during the cold winter months. For example, in 1947, a total of 835,000 new
houses were built and in the month of December, nearly 62,000 more new houses were
started. That is more "starts" in new home construction than any other December in
our national history.
-o-
"VOICE" MAIL CONTINUES. Congratulatory letters from remote sections continue to reach
this office on the passage of Congressman Mundt's so-called "Voice of America" Bill.
Letters have now reached us from American citizens, newspaper writers, observers and
others located in 14 different foreign countries.
Last week an especially pleasing letter came in from Erling Christophersen,
Cultural Attache of the Norwegian Embassy here in Washington. It said:
Dear Mr. Mundt:
Please my heartiest congratulations upon the final success of
The Mundt Bill. I have admired your fight through all the stages, and
I feel sure that this bill will be a most important instrument in our
common work for peace through international understanding.
It was a great pleasure meeting you in Oslo. I hope that some day
I will get an opportunity to discuss with you at length various problems.
Very sincerely yours,
Erling Christophersen.
-o-
IS A WORLD LIKE A HOUSE? Since this issue of YOUR WASHINGTON AND YOU is written
during the week of Lincoln's birthday, it brings to mind his immortal oratorical
phrase based in part on Biblical verse: "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free."
In February 1948 - ninety years after Lincoln spoke those works in Springfield,
Illinois in June, 1858, Congress and the country are asking each other, "Can a World
permanently endure half slave and half free?". The Communists in their slave half of
the world have said "No" to that question in numerous Russian versions of Mein Kampf.
In the bright sunlight of the free half of the world, there is more hope and more
determination to avert war. But most agree that in the years ahead, either the slave
half or the free half of the world is certain to expand at the expense of the other
half. Like Lincoln, most Americans are resolved that the decision and the drift shall
not be in favor of Communism. They are determined that the world shall not become
"all slave".
-o-
MUNDT PROPOSES BILL TO CURB COMMUNISM. Appearing before his own Committee on UnAmerican Activities, Congressman Karl Mundt recently testified as a witness in support of
his bill, H.R. 4422, which would declare and define a National Policy on Communism
and require all Communists in this country to register as agents of a foreign power.
All Communist propaganda and printed material circulated across State lines would
also have to carry the imprint in bold face type that it is published in the interests
of a foreign power.
Next night, Mundt carried his battle for an effective disclosure curb on
Communism in America to the public by a speech broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting
System. Mundt marshalled evidence accumulated across twenty years of study to prove
that American Communists follow the Moscow Party line so faithfully that their
connections with the "center" in the Kremlin are unmistakeably clear. Hence, he
would make them register as agents with the Department of Justice in Washington.

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YOUR WASHINGTON AND YOU VOLUME X NUMBER 6
WEEKLY NEWS LETTER From Office of Karl Mundt For Release - February 18 or after
REDUCED RATES FOR CROP INSURANCE. Utilizing figures supplied him by South Dakota ACA
Committeemen, on January 22 Congressman Mundt wrote C. F. Geissler, Manager of the
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation in Washington sending him some charts and a brief
in support of Mr. Mundt's request that crop insurance rates in South Dakota be
reviewed and re-studied with the object of reducing them to conform with the low loss
ration suffered in our State.
Last week, Mr. Geissler replied to Mr. Mundt stating that the reviews of the rate
structures had been completed and that as a connsequence "we were able to make substantial reductions in the premium rates for most counties. Because of favorable crop
conditions during the past several years, we have made very sizeable reductions in
most county premium rates in your State. Under these same conditions, it is also to
be expected that county reserves will be built up."
Thus, South Dakota farmers in counties eligible for Flax, Wheat, or Corn crop
insurance will be able to purchase this insurance in 1948 at definitely lower rates
in most areas covered by the Federal Crop Insurance Program.
-o-
PROGRESS IN HOUSING. Latest government reports indicate that while the situation still
leaves much to be desired, the housing program in America is making mighty strides
even during the cold winter months. For example, in 1947, a total of 835,000 new
houses were built and in the month of December, nearly 62,000 more new houses were
started. That is more "starts" in new home construction than any other December in
our national history.
-o-
"VOICE" MAIL CONTINUES. Congratulatory letters from remote sections continue to reach
this office on the passage of Congressman Mundt's so-called "Voice of America" Bill.
Letters have now reached us from American citizens, newspaper writers, observers and
others located in 14 different foreign countries.
Last week an especially pleasing letter came in from Erling Christophersen,
Cultural Attache of the Norwegian Embassy here in Washington. It said:
Dear Mr. Mundt:
Please my heartiest congratulations upon the final success of
The Mundt Bill. I have admired your fight through all the stages, and
I feel sure that this bill will be a most important instrument in our
common work for peace through international understanding.
It was a great pleasure meeting you in Oslo. I hope that some day
I will get an opportunity to discuss with you at length various problems.
Very sincerely yours,
Erling Christophersen.
-o-
IS A WORLD LIKE A HOUSE? Since this issue of YOUR WASHINGTON AND YOU is written
during the week of Lincoln's birthday, it brings to mind his immortal oratorical
phrase based in part on Biblical verse: "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free."
In February 1948 - ninety years after Lincoln spoke those works in Springfield,
Illinois in June, 1858, Congress and the country are asking each other, "Can a World
permanently endure half slave and half free?". The Communists in their slave half of
the world have said "No" to that question in numerous Russian versions of Mein Kampf.
In the bright sunlight of the free half of the world, there is more hope and more
determination to avert war. But most agree that in the years ahead, either the slave
half or the free half of the world is certain to expand at the expense of the other
half. Like Lincoln, most Americans are resolved that the decision and the drift shall
not be in favor of Communism. They are determined that the world shall not become
"all slave".
-o-
MUNDT PROPOSES BILL TO CURB COMMUNISM. Appearing before his own Committee on UnAmerican Activities, Congressman Karl Mundt recently testified as a witness in support of
his bill, H.R. 4422, which would declare and define a National Policy on Communism
and require all Communists in this country to register as agents of a foreign power.
All Communist propaganda and printed material circulated across State lines would
also have to carry the imprint in bold face type that it is published in the interests
of a foreign power.
Next night, Mundt carried his battle for an effective disclosure curb on
Communism in America to the public by a speech broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting
System. Mundt marshalled evidence accumulated across twenty years of study to prove
that American Communists follow the Moscow Party line so faithfully that their
connections with the "center" in the Kremlin are unmistakeably clear. Hence, he
would make them register as agents with the Department of Justice in Washington.